1) Bottom line is - At death, the consciousness survives
2): So the righteous dead are comforted in heaven until the rapture
,S B, yeah, thanks for the insights ino the spin of non-wt "scholars" on this.
1) death being less numbing than total anesthesia?
I had terrible things done to me on the operating table, totally unconscious, gratefully. Death is a less effective painkiller than a chemical?
2) Like the reverse rapture quoted above, A "souls or spirit" already up there, getting into a body down here, and the ascending again? Interesting thoughts, but without being deliberately irreverend,
what can one expect from a story starting with the Gen !:! mistake. and based on a talking snake plot? fun plodding through though!